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About Rabbi Zevulun Jonathan Zavi Sternberg
Aged 23 after the death of his mother, he became a head of the twelve-children family and functioned as a real father to his brothers and sisters.
He was the figurehead, the provider, and, with sister Esti, the authority of the family.
Zaavi owned a small antiques shop, a heritage from his mother, which became under his management a big and prosperous antiques store.
He was one of the founders and leaders of MIZRACHI movement in the first decade of XX century. Zaavi tried twice - in 1935 and 1939 - to move to Israel, but unsuccessfully.
In 1944 Zaavi and his wife left Budapest, in a transport of Hungarian Jews ransomed by Rezso (Rudolf) Kastner. This transport was supposed to go directly to Eretz Israel, but wound up at Bergen-Belsen, where they were given "special" status and kept separately from "regular" prisoners. Shortly before the war ended, the transport was moved to Switzerland and interned in French sector.
After the war, some members of the transport wound up in US, others, including Margit (Zaavi having died in 1944 in Switzerland as a result of all the travail and unbearable stress) went to Israel.
See stories about Zaavi and Margit in "Beschau Tales" by Moshe Shternberg (their son).
(Information is taken from "Chronicles of Sternbergs" by Michael Sternberg, my first cousin)
1913--1996- The Eger Family Association- pg.22
Aged 23 after the death of his mother, he became a head of the twelve-children family and functioned as a real father to his brothers and sisters.
He was the figurehead, the provider, and, with sister Esti, the authority of the family.
Zaavi owned a small antiques shop, a heritage from his mother, which became under his management a big and prosperous antiques store.
He was one of the founders and leaders of MIZRACHI movement in the first decade of XX century. Zaavi tried twice - in 1935 and 1939 - to move to Israel, but unsuccessfully.
In 1944 Zaavi and his wife left Budapest, in a transport of Hungarian Jews ransomed by Rezso (Rudolf) Kastner. This transport was supposed to go directly to Eretz Israel, but wound up at Bergen-Belsen, where they were given "special" status and kept separately from "regular" prisoners. Shortly before the war ended, the transport was moved to Switzerland and interned in French sector.
After the war, some members of the transport wound up in US, others, including Margit (Zaavi having died in 1944 in Switzerland as a result of all the travail and unbearable stress) went to Israel.
See stories about Zaavi and Margit in "Beschau Tales" by Moshe Shternberg (their son).
(Information is taken from "Chronicles of Sternbergs" by Michael Sternberg, my first cousin)
1913--1996- The Eger Family Association- pg.22
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Rabbi Zevulun Jonathan Zavi Sternberg's Timeline
| 1880 |
August 29, 1880
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Budapest, Hungary
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| 1924 |
January 15, 1924
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Budapest, Hungary
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| 1928 |
June 29, 1928
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Budapest, Hungary
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| 1945 |
January 8, 1945
Age 64
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Montreux, Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut, VD, Switzerland
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